Why exactly did you choose Netbeans and Gradle, and why didn't you use Spring Boot for your first setup?
And how exactly did you search for examples, considering that there are pretty good guides and lots of examples right on the Github?
Here's the one from Spring:
https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-jpa/
How do I generate a stubbed structure to start with Spring Boot, without downloading an example? Is there a generator of some kind? I'm still looking for this answer.
That example is for JPA. I thought the "better" answer for a Java ORM was still Hibernate, and I can't find a Spring-based example for that. If you tell me that Hibernate has been usurped by JPA in Java developer mindshare, or if you tell me that JPA just works better with Spring, I can change course. I have no experience with either to make the call.
And how exactly did you search for examples, considering that there are pretty good guides and lots of examples right on the Github? Here's the one from Spring: https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-jpa/